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New York Times, Thursday, June 11, 1998

Author:
Randall J. Hartman
Editor:
Will Shortz
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Randall J. Hartman

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 40 Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 22 for Mr. Hartman. Thursday freshness: 51%
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© 1998, The New York Times6/11/98 ( No. 17,747 )
Across
1
Poly-sci subjects : ISMS
5
Overshadow : DWARF
10
Costner's role in "The Untouchables" : NESS
14
Skip : OMIT
15
Symbol of thinness : WAFER
16
Like some singing : ALTO
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Six-foot vis-à-vis five-foot : TALLER
18
Administer : ENFORCE
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Beside oneself? : CLONED
20
Beset : ASSAILED
22
Exit : EGRESS
24
Big name in gyms : GOLDS
25
Expensive eggs? : ROE
26
A growing concern? : FUNGUS
29
Give a hand : AID
30
Operate : ACT
33
End of a list of names : ETAL
34
Botch : MISDO
36
War stat. : MIA
37
Group with a hint to this puzzle's theme : THREEMUSKETEERS
41
Middling mark : CEE
42
Acclaim : KUDOS
43
Make out : NECK
44
Abbr. in a marathon time : HRS
45
"When ___ Love" (Van Halen hit) : ITS
46
French books : LIVRES
48
Cable inits. : TNT
49
Thrill : ELATE
51
Dummy : STOOGE
54
Flying body? : FUSELAGE
58
Lincolnesque : HONEST
59
Familiar political promises : REFORMS
61
Aloud : ORALLY
62
Comic Johnson : ARTE
63
First name in beauty : ESTEE
64
Squint (at) : PEER
65
Site of a W.W. I Allied victory : YSER
66
They have bar signs : RESTS
67
"Smooth Operator" chanteuse : SADE
Down
1
Scintilla : IOTA
2
Shirt sizes : SMALLS
3
Architect ___ van der Rohe : MIES
4
Opposite of lead : STRAGGLE
5
Lives : DWELLS
6
Dwindled : WANED
7
Provides : AFFORDS
8
Boombox button abbr. : REC
9
Something for nothing : FREERIDE
10
Bead material : NACRE
11
Woman of Paris : ELLE
12
Things on rings : STONES
13
Covers the earth : SODS
21
Marker : IOU
23
Noted object of a wait : GODOT
26
Order to Fido : FETCH
27
King Arthur's father : UTHER
28
Nostrils : NARES
29
Shows curiosity : ASKS
30
Mideast chief : AMEER
31
Lurer of sailors, in myth : CIRCE
32
Assignments : TASKS
34
Mucks : MUDS
35
Prefix with thermal : ISO
38
Making (out) : EKING
39
One who can hardly be made out : MUTTERER
40
Wraps up : ENVELOPS
46
Sweethearts : LASSES
47
Suffix in rock names : ITE
48
Bellhop, at times : TOTER
49
Attempts : EFFORTS
50
Director Sidney : LUMET
51
Old-fashioned conveyance : SHAY
52
Xerox products : TONERS
53
Bone: Prefix : OSTE
55
Specialty, so to speak : AREA
56
Vexed : GALLED
57
Jane who stayed at Thornfield : EYRE
60
Vane dir. : ESE

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1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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